It was just a comment on the tendency of "creator vs created" stories to feature painfully forseeable conflict, such that any lessons that supposed to be implied about the hubris of mankind or the dangers of excessive experimentation usually become secondary to the question of why someone would be such a complete idiot.

It was just a comment on the tendency of "creator vs created" stories to feature painfully forseeable conflict, such that any lessons that supposed to be implied about the hubris of mankind or the dangers of excessive experimentation usually become secondary to the question of why someone would be such a complete idiot.

Actually, I don't think Jurassic Park quite falls in that category. The problems there were more logistical, and related to the scope of the undertaking. That's a slightly different sort of suspension of disbelief that facilitates what is basically a man vs nature story. In simply recreating dinosaurs, they didn't do anything inherently stupid. The idiotic/unbelievable part is that the very first application of the technology would be to make a full blown, fee-for-admission dinosaur theme park. That sort of wrongheaded sense of scale is much more forgivable than other cases, the most egregious of which, in my mind, is probably Dracula, as I alluded to earlier.

I thought the Elder Adama was supposed to be a brilliant and widely respected jurist? Yes, there are a few venerated figures in criminal law, like Johnny Cochran, most of the household names come from other areas of practice. More to the point, the thick tomes Adama the Youngest was carting around during the Baltar Trial had led me to suspect something more rarified, like constitutional law.

Well, I know, but being connected to someone who is intimately connected to the mob is pretty much the same thing as being connected to the mob. Or, that was sort of the thought behind my post, anyway. And how do you know so much about all this? Is it starting soon?

[link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwHh3NNn_IQ]"One Year Later"[/link](played during the Season 2 time jump-- bet you didn't guess that-- and it was also played during the 150,000-year time jump in the finale)

I've always been rather fond of [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfk8MomvLU]The Shape of Things to Come[/link]. [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUO-f-XApsI]Operatica[/link] and [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apx-nVC0HZI]Dinner Party[/link] are also good. And [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqTZRijRW70]Muzaktica[/link] is just hilarious.

You must watch every episode in order. Although there are standalones, it is a very serialized story and it's best not to skip around or anything. That means you start with the miniseries (included in the Region 1 Season 1 boxset but I don't know about New Zealand) and move on from there.

Or you can do what I'm doing, watch several seasons in parallel -- Season 3 is currently airing (last night was Eye of Jupiter), plus the same station showed episodes from Season 1. Then I bought the miniseries DVD and watched that 2 weeks ago. Now I've Season 2 coming from ebay (?25 for both halves, incl shipping). To top it all off, when I was hoe 2 weeks ago, I taped eps 4-20 and 4-21 off in-demand, and my Dad is taping the finale off on-demand for me tonight. Should have that by the end of next week.

I am catching up on now. the show thanks to DVD mostly, but I have a question about viewing order. I know Razor is listed at the beginning of Season 4 based on its release dates, but from what I gather about the story it seems to take place closer to the end of Season 2.0 with all the Pegasus stuff. I am at the end of Season 3 now so should I watch Razor before continuing Season 4, will it spoil me for anything in season 4, or does it not matter when I watch it?